Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period: Illustrative Documents
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Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period: Illustrative Documents
Pirates; Privateering; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources
[Footnote 34: _I.e._, when the ship had been careened she remained so
fixed in that position that the men could not, by the breadth of one
of her planks, get her keel where they could work on it.]
[Footnote 35: In other words, there was a tide of twelve feet.]
[Footnote 36: End.]
[Footnote 37: Isla del Gallo, in Tumaco bay.]
[Footnote 38: _Cape_ San Francisco (about 50' N. lat.) not an island;
but Ringrose, p. 58, says, "At first this Cape appeared like unto two
several Islands".]
[Footnote 39: This is no doubt legendary. Isla de la Plata means Isle
of Silver.]
[Footnote 40: Nearer 1 deg. 12' S.]
[Footnote 41: Arica, a Peruvian town now occupied by Chile.]
[Footnote 42: Guayaquil, in Ecuador.]
[Footnote 43: Punta Santa Elena, 2 deg. 10' S.]
[Footnote 44: Leagues.]
[Footnote 45: Armadilla, a small armed vessel.]
[Footnote 46: At Quito, probably. The viceroy-archbishop, _op. cit._,
p. 332, calls the man Carlos Alem (Charles Allen, Charles Hall?).
Besides the viceroy's circumstantial account of this fight at the
Barbacoas, there is one in Dionisio de Alcedo's _Aviso Historico_
[_Piraterias y Agresiones de los Ingleses_] (Madrid, 1883), p. 158.]
[Footnote 47: Payta, Peru, in 5 deg. S. lat.]
[Footnote 48: Punta Aguja, 5 deg. 57' S. lat.]
[Footnote 49: Nearer 18 deg. 30'.]
[Footnote 50: Ilo. It was late in October, not early.]
[Footnote 51: Mora de Sama.]
[Footnote 52: Pedereros, small cannon.]
[Footnote 53: Magellan. The temporary capture of Ilo is omitted.]
[Footnote 54: Coquimbo, Chile, in 30 deg. S. lat. Ringrose, pp. 107, 111,
gives plans of the town and the harbor.]
[Footnote 55: Excepting.]
[Footnote 56: Juan Fernandez. A Spanish pilot of that name discovered
the islands in 1563. Our buccaneers sighted them on Christmas eve,
1680.]
[Footnote 57: The eastern is called Mas-a-tierra ("nearer the land"),
the western Mas-a-fuera ("farther out"). The distance between is about
100 miles.]
[Footnote 58: John Watkins. The new pirate chief had severe principles
as to the Sabbath. "Sunday January the ninth [1681, three days after
his election], this day was the first Sunday that ever we kept by
command and common consent since the loss and death of our valiant
Commander Captain Sawkins. This generous spirited man [Sawkins] threw
the dice over board, finding them in use on the said day." Ringrose,
p. 121. The Spanish accounts call the new captain Juan Guarlen.]
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